On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:47:07AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > ... this is a change that was introduced recently, what is the > rationale for that change? Why can't the old behavior stay? Changing > commandline handling in that way breaks backward compatibility in a > serious way and unfortunately also several scripts that people use over > the years to send mails with attachments from the commandline. > > Would it be possible to revert that change to the old behavior? > Rhonda
Hi Rhonda, unfortunately this change was introduced to have GNU getopt working as POSIX getopt (see http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3097), so the option handling will work on the same way on all POSIX systems. I understand that this can be an incompatible change and we also have another similar problem with 1.5.20 with the handling of new mail notification, which is different from the previous behavior. Due to the fact that this option handling was not working correctly on non-GNU system I suppose that this change would have been introduced at some stage (even later); we could fork our code and introduce a patch to support the new behavior but that would mean maintaining a patch forever and having the Debian mutt version to be different from the one shipped with other distro (using the standard mutt). We could ask upstream to provide us with a switch in .muttrc to support the old behavior but I think that it's better to adapt our scripts to the new behavior (if it's possible). At the end of the day it's not a big deal of changes, mutt 1.5.20 had entered testing one or two weeks ago and no problem was reported so far about this option. Rather than rushing and asking upstream to do some changes I would prefer to gather some user feedback about this new behavior, and then we could decide with more data on our hands. Please let me know if you have any questions or if you think that we should address the problem in a different way. Cheers Antonio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
